3rd Place at the SIUE Doubletree Intercollegiate

We finished in 3rd place this past Monday and Tuesday at our home event held at Sunset Hills CC.  Behind freshman Taylor Cox's 72 we shot the low round of the day on Tuesday.  Taylor finished his round today by making eagle on the Par 4 7th hole and making birdie on his last hole of the day, hole 8.

Individually, Neal McCarty posted his second straight top 10 by finishing 2nd overall with a three round total of 220 (75-70-75).  This is Neal's 7th top 5 finish of his SIUE career.  Following Neal was Nick Nuzzo who got 12th place that was highlighted by an opening round of 73.

We are off until February 21 when we head to Phoenix for the Snowman Washington State Invitational.  Our off season will consist of more weight training and conditioning, while working on our game as much as possible.  It was very nice to end the fall on such a positive round and I am confident that it will spring us right into the spring season!

I will be updating the Birdie Pledge this week and will start sending out the invoices soon.  I really appreciate all of the support that we have had this year from family, friends and our alumni!

Coach Brown

SIUE Intercollegiate Presented by Doubletree Hotels

This coming Monday and Tuesday we are hosting our first home event in 3 years as 8 division I golf teams are scheduled to compete at our home golf course, Sunset Hills Country Club.  Teams competing are SIUE, Missouri State, South Dakota, North Dakota, Eastern Illinois, SIU-Carbondale, Chicago State and Tennessee State. 

I have been keeping my eye on the weather for about 10 days and the forecast is getting better every day.  It looks like we may get a little rain tomorrow for the practice round, but Monday and Tuesday look pretty dry and warm! 

We will be sticking with the same starting lineup as we have had for the last two tournaments.  It will look like this:

1. Neal McCarty
2. Grant Wynia
3. Taylor Cox
4. Nick Nuzzo
5. Alex Knoll

We will be starting on holes 1-5 on Monday morning with a 8:15 shotgun start.  Remember that there is no admission charge and we would love all support on Monday and Tuesday as we want to close our fall season strong. 

We are coming off some great scores at last week's Austin Peay Intercollegiate where senior Neal McCarty shot a 10 under par 206 to get 6th place.  As a team we had 6 individual rounds under par as Freshman Taylor Cox shot a pair of 1 under par 71's and Freshman Grant Wynia also shot a first round 71.  I am checking the record books, but our first round 286 is the lowest round an SIUE team has shot in at least 4 years! 

Thanks again for the support and hope to see you out at Sunset Hills this week.

Coach Brown

Some well needed rest and the Austin Peay Intercollegiate

After some tough courses and weather conditions we were happy to be back in Edwardsville with a week off from competition.  We are in the middle of a couple great weeks of practice that have included qualifying and some inter-squad Ryder Cup competitions.  We have one more 18 hole qualifier this Friday, so I do not have our starting lineups for Austin Peay available. 

The Austin Peay Intercollegiate will feature all of the Ohio Valley Conference teams and in some way serves as an OVC preview for the fall.  The field consists of the following teams:  Samford, UT-Martin, Austin Peay, Jacksonville St, Tennessee Tech, Oakland, Murray State, Towson, Eastern Kentucky, SIUE, Belmont, Morehead St, Tennessee St, Western Illinois, Eastern Illinois, Troy and Bowling Green. 

I have updated the Pledge for Birdie section to show how many birdies we have been making in our tournaments.  Thanks again for the support!!

Coach Brown

D.A Weibring Intercollegiate

It is nice to be inside after a very windy and cold day here in Normal, IL.  We fought hard and played much better in our second round to help us climb the leaderboard.  We have four of our guys to finish 1 hole tomorrow before we go back out and play our last round.  We are currently sitting in 13th out of 18 after round one and we are hoping our second round score will move us up in the standings.  Leading the way in the first round was Alex Knoll who shot 79.  I will update the final results as soon as I can tomorrow or Monday. 

Think Warm!

Coach